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interesting but not really 18 August 2009 20:19
It's an interesting attack vector. But this isn't any more or less
dangerous to a developer than other viruses and trojans. If a
developer acquires a virus on his dev machine it can easily affect
apps the developer is compiling without having anything to do with
the compiler or tools he's using. This is just another way for a
virus to infect executable code. It makes it sound like Delphi or
IDEs are now "vulnerable" - but they are no more or less vulnerable
than any other of the thousands of exes and dlls on every developers
machine, and no more or less than they have been since viruses and
trojans were first created. This is a clever trick, but it's nothing
to be more worried about than all of the other ways your dev machine
can be attacked. Use virus scanners and keep them up to date.
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